本书系《剑桥大学指南》丛书的一种，共收12篇上关权咸文章，旨在帮助读者更好地理解美国诗人旨洛斯特和他的诗歌。**篇文章用大量的资料对弗洛斯特在生平进行了整理、综合，并给予中肯定评价，使读者看到了诗人以外的弗洛斯特；第二篇到第九篇文章从不同方面对弗洛斯特的诗歌风格、写作技巧以及运用的修辞手法进行了细致的分析；*后三篇则从政治、经济、人文的角度分析了弗洛斯特本人及其体现在诗歌中的相关观点。为12篇文章立意新颖，角度各异，对于深层次地解读弗洛斯特的诗歌并全方位地了解这位杰出诗人，无疑具有重大意义。

List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Cbronolgoy
Note on the text
List of the poems cited
Introduction
ROBERT FAGGEN
1 “Stay Unassuming":the Lives of Robert Frost
DONALD G.SHEEHY
2 Frost Biography and Witness Tree
WILLAM PRITCHARD
3 Frost and the Questions of Pastoral
ROBERT FAGGE
4 Frst and the Ancient Muses
HELEN BACON
5 Frost as a New England Poet
LAWRENCE BUELL
6 "Across Spaces of the Footed Line":the Meter and Versification of Robert Frost
TIMOTHY STEELE
7 Frost's Poetry of Metaphor
JUDITH OSTER
8 Frost and the Mediative Lyric
BLANFORD PARKER
9 Frost's Poetics of Control
MARK RICHARDSON
10 Frost's Politics and the Cold War
GEORGE MONTEIRO
11 "Synonymous with Kept":Frost and Economics
GUY ROTELIA
12 Human Presence in Frost's Universe
JOHN CUNNINGAM
Select biliography
Index